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INCI ingredient

Mandelic Acid

Mandelic Acid appears on 16 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toners.

What it triggers

  • Vegan originYesno animal source
  • FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
  • ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
  • SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
  • SiliconeNonot a silicone
  • AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol

What it does

Mandelic Acid appears on 16 ingredient lists in our database, most often in toners.

It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.

We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.

Functions: antimicrobial

Products with Mandelic Acid

in 16 products

Showing 16 of 16 products with this ingredient, most scanned first.

In the EU ingredient database

Functions listed by CosIng
  • antimicrobial
  • antimicrobial: Preventing and/or slowing down microbial growth.

CAS 90-64-2 · EC 202-007-6

EU regulation

Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.

Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.

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